SmartPaths 0.8.3

"~/Path/../SmartPaths/" ⇒ ~/SmartPaths/

A library for dealing with paths as strongly typed objects instead of strings.

Also included are abstractions for IFile, IFolder, and IFileSystem.
FileSystem implementations include physical disks as well as in memory RAM drives.

How are paths handled in SmartPaths?

Paths can be easily constructed via implicit conversion from string:

AbsoluteFolderPath absoluteFolder = @"C:\Users\Default\";
AbsoluteFilePath absoluteFile = @"C:\Windows\notepad.exe";

RelativeFolderPath relativeFolder = @"..\..\Users\Default\";
RelativeFilePath relativeFile = @"..\..\Windows\notepad.exe";

Absolute and relative paths can be combined in various ways:

AbsoluteFilePath combinedFile = absoluteFolder + relativeFile; 
AbsoluteFilePath combinedFile2 = absoluteFolder / relativeFile; 
// these both result in @"C:\Windows\notepad.exe"

RelativeFilePath relative = absoluteFolder >> absoluteFile;
// this results in @"..\..\Windows\notepad.exe"

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